[linux-audio-user] Mastering; Rezound, fir filter, digital clipping

[R Parker]

--- Daniel James <daniel at mondodesigno.com> wrote:
> > I'm doing a study on audio mastering. Hopefully
> this
> > letter will generate some correspondance from
> which
> > I'll learn enough to augment a GFDL licensed
> document
> > that I've been working on.
> 
> I look forward to reading that. Mastering is a
> mystery to me,

I've noticed that audio mastering is a mystery to many
musicians and engineers. If using a well designed
tool, the mystery will evaporate. And yes, that is
contrary to what most of us have heard during our
careers but I stand by the claims that A, mastering is
easy and B,  digital audio mastering produces great
results.

There is a linux mastering tool. It hasn't been
announced yet because it's in an alpha stage of
development which is why I didn't mention the
application name in the original letter. But the cat
is out of the bag, see jamin.sourceforge.net.

Hope you like JAMIN too,

ron

 so I've 
> just sent off for a book called Mastering Audio -
> the Art and the 
> Science by Bob Katz. Are there any other titles that
> list members 
> could recommend on the subject? 
> 
> I know there are specialist mastering applications
> on other platforms, 
> but what are the options on Linux? I know Audacity
> has recently added 
> a gui compressor, and Glame used to have a great
> normalisation tool. 
> Plus there's quite a few relevant LADSPA plugins - I
> know Steve 
> Harris was working on a mastering toolkit.
> 
> It seems to me we've got all the elements there, but
> they haven't 
> really been drawn together specifically for
> mastering yet. I'm just 
> compiling Glame 1.0 now to see what that's like.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Daniel


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